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La Passion du docteur Hohner

Titre original : The Climax
  • 1944
  • Approved
  • 1h 26min
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5,4/10
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La Passion du docteur Hohner (1944)
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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA demented physician becomes obsessed with a young singer whose voice sounds similar to his late mistress.A demented physician becomes obsessed with a young singer whose voice sounds similar to his late mistress.A demented physician becomes obsessed with a young singer whose voice sounds similar to his late mistress.

  • Réalisation
    • George Waggner
  • Scénario
    • Curt Siodmak
    • Lynn Starling
    • Edward Locke
  • Casting principal
    • Boris Karloff
    • Susanna Foster
    • Turhan Bey
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  • NOTE IMDb
    5,4/10
    1,1 k
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    • Réalisation
      • George Waggner
    • Scénario
      • Curt Siodmak
      • Lynn Starling
      • Edward Locke
    • Casting principal
      • Boris Karloff
      • Susanna Foster
      • Turhan Bey
    • 35avis d'utilisateurs
    • 27avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
    • Nommé pour 1 Oscar
      • 2 nominations au total

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    Rôles principaux38

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    Boris Karloff
    Boris Karloff
    • Dr. Friedrich Hohner
    Susanna Foster
    Susanna Foster
    • Angela Klatt
    Turhan Bey
    Turhan Bey
    • Franz Munzer
    Gale Sondergaard
    Gale Sondergaard
    • Luise
    Thomas Gomez
    Thomas Gomez
    • Count Seebruck
    June Vincent
    June Vincent
    • Marcellina
    George Dolenz
    George Dolenz
    • Amato Roselli
    Ludwig Stössel
    Ludwig Stössel
    • Carl Baumann
    Jane Farrar
    Jane Farrar
    • Jarmila Vadek
    Ernö Verebes
    Ernö Verebes
    • Brunn
    • (as Erno Verebes)
    Lotte Stein
    Lotte Stein
    • Mama Hinzl
    Scotty Beckett
    Scotty Beckett
    • The King
    William Edmunds
    • Leon - Theatre Concierge
    Maxwell Hayes
    • Count Romburg - King's Aide
    Dorothy Lawrence
    • Miss Metzger
    Ernie Adams
    Ernie Adams
    • Man in Audience Next to Franz
    • (non crédité)
    Gertrude Astor
    Gertrude Astor
    • Woman in Audience Behind Franz
    • (non crédité)
    Polly Bailey
    • Cleaning Woman
    • (non crédité)
    • Réalisation
      • George Waggner
    • Scénario
      • Curt Siodmak
      • Lynn Starling
      • Edward Locke
    • Toute la distribution et toute l’équipe technique
    • Production, box office et plus encore chez IMDbPro

    Avis des utilisateurs35

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    8mggbikeluvr

    I actually liked it...

    I understand that "The Climax" isn't necessarily a well received" movie among Boris Karloff fans. The plot isn't much, i'll admit that, and some of the musical number "particularly the one in which Jane Farrar was the prima donna) were quite painful. But Susanna Foster's voice saves the day. This movies is no "Phantom of the Opera", but it was fun to watch. The Technicolor was magnificent, and the set design was gorgeous. Turhan Bey was an alright leading man for Foster. But he didn't seem "strong" enough, I suppose. Boris Karloff is fantastic as a menacing figure, hovering over Foster in an aura of mystery and horror. The film isn't scary enough to be considered a horror film, but too ominous to be considered a musical. There isn't a real genre for it. But it's enjoyable to watch and I liked it. I'm a big Susanna Foster fan, so it was joy to hear her sing, and I'm becoming a Boris Karloff fan, after seeing "Frankenstein" and "The Climax".

    So, all in all, "The Climax" is good enough, but it could be better.
    5Coventry

    The Karloff of the Opera?

    Even though the legendary Boris Karloff gave image to hundreds of cinematic monsters, psychopaths and mad scientists, he never played the titular character in Gaston Leroux' acclaimed masterwork "The Phantom of the Opera". Other contemporary horror stars did, like Lon Chaney and Claude Rains. Perhaps this production was Universal's attempt to involve Karloff in a horrific opera film-production anyway, re-using the expensive sets of the Phantom-film that was released one year earlier. The story is set in a prominent Vienna opera building where Boris stars as the resident physician, Dr. Hohner, and successfully hides a dark secret from his friends and co workers. After a short intro and a truly well choreographed flashback, we learn who Dr. Hohner murdered his fiancée and upcoming star-singer Marcellina because he feared her magically developing voice would come between their relationship. Now, ten years later, the new promising singer Angela – with a voice almost identical to Marcellina's – arrives at the theater and once again awakens Hohner's maniacal lusts. He hypnotizes her into never singing again, but Angela's young and devoted lover Franz carries on battling to make Angela share her wondrous voice with the world. "The Climax" is a beautiful movie to look at, with the terrific use of color and a nearly endless amount of great decors, but it surely could have used a slightly better screenplay. It's a rather predictable film with very few action scenes and only a bit of old-fashioned, legitimate tension during the last 15 minutes. There are many marvelous yet overlong opera sequences, even a lot more than in the actual "Phantom of the Opera", but they naturally slow down the film's pace and eventually even affect (negatively) the acting performances of Boris Karloff and Gale Sondergaard. It's an enjoyable mystery/thriller to a certain extent, but if you want to see Karloff at his most malicious, check out Val Lewton's "The Body Snatcher" or "Bedlam".
    Dethcharm

    Final Aria...

    THE CLIMAX stars the one and only Boris Karloff as the quietly unhinged Dr. Friedrich Hohner, who has already disposed of his wife. When a young opera star (Susanna Foster) catches his ear and eye, Hohner sets out to have her under his control at any cost.

    Karloff is a master at playing this type of low-key, seemingly docile character, who has something sinister boiling just beneath the surface. This is difficult to pull off, but he makes it look easy.

    Lovers of opera should enjoy this movie, since it's packed with big musical productions. In fact, it's almost a musical!...
    5bsmith5552

    Disappointing Technicolor Extraviganza!

    "The Climax" produced and directed by George Waggner inevitably suffers in comparison to his "The Phantom of the Opera" re-make released the previous year. Filmed on the same opera set as the Phantom (both 1925 and 1943 versions) and in glorious color and with the same female lead (Suzzanna Foster) as the previous year, it is nevertheless disappointing. It was also the first color film for star Boris Karloff.

    The film opens with Dr. Hohner (Karloff) lamenting the loss of his beloved Marcellina (June Vincent) who was an opera star, ten years earlier. We then flash back to learn that Hohner had been in love with the diva but was jealous of her voice, which he saw as coming between them. When she rejects his love, he murders her and she "disappears".

    While leaving the theater, Dr. Hohner hears a voice that he believes to be that of Marcellina. It belongs however, to aspiring student Angela (Foster) who with her fiancé Franz (Turhan Bey) is hoping to become an opera singer. Impresario Count Seebruck (Thomas Gomez) hears her and plans to present her in the theater much to the dismay of resident soprano Jarmila Vadek (Jane Farrar).

    Angela achieves immediate success, but when Seebruck plans to star her in "The Magic Voice", Dr. Hohner decides to take action. Luring her to his home on the pretense of examining her throat on behalf of the opera company, he hypnotizes her into believing that she no longer wants to sing.

    We also learn that the good doctor has preserved Marcellina's body and keeps it in a sealed room in his home while being observed by his housekeeper Luise (Gale Sondergaard) who had served Marcellina.

    Franz decides to take action. He secures an audience with the boy King (Scotty Beckett) who orders a command performance of "The Magic Voice" and................

    Karloff has had better roles. In spite of a promising opening, the film drags through the middle and gives him little to do. Foster basically plays the same role as she had in the Phantom, a year earlier. Gale Sondergarrd who usually played evil and sinister villains, is wasted here. Bey, who was a rising star at the time also has little to do but drool over Foster.

    Although the technicolor photography is stunning, it is spoiled by a weak story and weak characters. The film doesn't seem to know whether it will be a horror story or a musical. Trying to mix the two fails miserably.
    Michael_Elliott

    Technically Good But Deadly Boring

    The Climax (1944)

    ** (out of 4)

    Boris Karloff returned to Universal Studios playing Dr. Frederich Hohner, a man most people believe is haunted by the disappearance of a female opera singer ten years earlier. What they don't realize is that he actually murdered her. In present times he hears the beautiful Angela Klatt (Susanna Foster) sing and her voice reminds him of the one he killed so he plans to control the new singer.

    THE CLIMAX was Karloff's return to the studio that made him a legend and the company went all out in regards to what the film has to offer. They gave him director George Waggner who had just scored a major success with THE WOLF MAN. They allowed the film to be shot in Technicolor. They even went all out with a higher budget and a classier looking picture. Everything is here except for a story, energy or any passion. I'm always shocked that Universal threw everything at this picture yet they basically delivered a rehash of SVENGALI and PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.

    On a technical level this film is very impressive as the visuals really jump off the screen. The Technicolor is extremely beautiful and especially the dresses and costumes in the picture. Just wait until you see the fire at the end as it looks incredible. The music itself is quite good if you really judge it and I'd argue that the cast is very good as well. This includes Karloff who has no problem playing the passion that this role requires. Foster, Turhan Bey and Gale Sondergaard are all good as well.

    So, what's the problem with THE CLIMAX? It's the story, which is downright boring and the movie ends up moving so slow that it feels twice as long. I really don't know why Universal did this to Karloff and offered such a boring screenplay and especially when they had just done PHANTOM OF THE OPERA the previous year.

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    • Anecdotes
      This film was shot on the lavish sets created for Le fantôme de l'opéra (1943) in an attempt to recoup the large budget of that film. The opera house set had been built for the original Le Fantôme de l'opéra (1925) starring Lon Chaney, and this extraordinary set still exists on the Universal Studios lot. It is the oldest surviving movie set in the world.
    • Gaffes
      In the rehearsal sequence in which Angela loses her voice at the sight of Dr. Hohner, she closes her mouth a split second before the playback of her voice stops.
    • Citations

      Dr. Hohner: You don't want to ruin that voice, do you? It isn't yours, remember? Now tell me, whose voice is it?... Tell me!

      Angela: Marcellina's!

    • Connexions
      Featured in Movie 4 Tonight: The Climax (1970)
    • Bandes originales
      Three Marches Militaires
      (opus 51)

      Composed by Franz Schubert

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    • Date de sortie
      • 20 octobre 1944 (États-Unis)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • The Climax
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, Californie, États-Unis(Studio)
    • Société de production
      • Universal Pictures
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    • Rapport de forme
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